Surface ornamentation and method of executing the same



April-14, 1931- H. s. HUMPHREYS 1,800,732

SURFACE ORNAMENTATION AND METHOD OF EXECUTING THE SAME Filed April 11, 1927 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 ,FIGZ. FIG3.

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SURFACE ORNAMENTATION AND METHOD .OF EXECUTING THE SAME Filed April 11, 1927 3 Sheets- Sheet 2 fglO.

Patented Apr. 14, 1931 UNETED STATES FATENT OFFIOE HARRY HUMPHR-LEYS, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO ARMSTRONG 'CORK COMPANY, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- VANIA SURFACE ORITAMENTATION AND METHOD OF EXEOUTING THE SAME Application filed April 11,

This invention relates to a surface ornamentation, and more particularly to a design for a rug. The design is formed with a bor der and a field portion, or with a border, a field and a medallion. Certain portions of the border design are repeated throughout the field. In other cases certain of the decorative figures in the border are repeated throughout the field and are present in the medallion. Decorative figures appearing in the field may also appear in the medallion.

A design of the nature described is executed by utilizing a plurality of figure-forming devices adapted to transfer a design to the ornamented surface, such as printing blocks or stencils. A number of the figure trans ferring devices are employed to form a border and at least one of the border forming devices is repeatedly used in laying decorative figures in the field of the rug. 'Where a medallion appears, one of the figure-forming devices may be used at regular intervals throughout the rug from one border through the field and medallion to the opposite border. The invention is particularly adapted for use in effecting designs on rugs of linoleum of either the printed or molded inlaid types or similar hard surfaced fioor coverings such as printed felt base goods, and the figure-forming devices employed may comprise printing locks or stencils, according to the nature of the finished article and the design to be executed.

In printing rugs, it has been necessary heretofore to employ a printing machine having a large number of printing blocks if it is desired to execute a rug design having a border, a medallion, and a field design, or to greatly restrict the number of colors employed. I provide a method of printing and a design wherein certain of the printing blocks are used repeatedly throughout the pattern. Atleast one of the printing blocks may be used in the border, the field, and a medallion, while other blocks may be used in both the field and medallion, or in the border and field. By using the blocks a number of times throughout the design, I am enabled to produce a pattern of this type, (that is, a rug having border, field and medallion) executed 1927. Serial No. 182,575,

in a greater number of colors than has heretofore been possible on a machine employing as few blocks as I employ. I am also enabled to produce more intricate design on a ma chine limited to a relatively small number of printing blocks.

in the accompanying drawings illustrating certain preferred embodiments of my invention,

Figure 1 shows a portion of a floor covering printed according to my invention;

Figures 2, 3, d, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 illustrate printing blocks employed in producing the pattern shown in F gure 1;

Figure 10 shows an inlaid design applied through stencils; and

Figures 11, 12, 13, 1a and 15 illustrate stencils used in forming the design shown in Figure 10.

Referring to the illustrated embodiment, there is shown in Figure 1 a rug having a border 2, a field portion 3, and a medallion 1. In printing this design, the printing blocks shown in Figures 2 to 9, inclusive, are employed in the following manner:

The printing blocks shown in Figures 2, 4c, 5 and 7 all print in positions A and E in Figure 1; the blocks illustrated in Figures 3, 5, 6 and 8, print in positions B and D; and the blocks illustrated in Figures 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 print in position C. It will thus be seen that the block shown in Figure 5 prints in all positions; the blocks shown in Figures 6 and 8 print in the field positions B and D and in the medallion position G; the block shown in Figure 2 being a border block prints only in positions A and E. In the design shown in Figure 1,1 print a double border, a field and a medallion, using but eight blocks. The number of blocks employed may, of course, vary with the design and the number of colors desired. It will be evident, however, that in my design the effectiveness of a printing machine is materially increased by reason of the great number of designs and color combinations possible with a limited number of blocks.

If desired, the position 0 may be extended to cover a longitudinal distance greater than the width of one block to effect an elongated beobvious that the fieldmay be extended as desired, depending upon the size of rugit is I l y of ea we t th ame tl ni eip r of.

medallion, simply by repeating the design shown in position C in Figure 1.

i The printing blocks are illustrated as being of the usual sawn type,'efiective for transf rring a continuous even film of paint to the covering, Itwill be understood, of course, that the invention 15 not limited to a parit ondyby Pressure to the n s e i o eum h t, s. Willer ad ly de tood by e skilled in the linoleum making art. The stencilsgshown inFigures 11, 12 and 13 are used in vpositioh;Af.in Figure10, while the stencils'shown in Figures 11, 14 and 15 are usedin positions B in Figure 10. v It will be seen that the stencil illustrated in Figure, lll

- is repeated throughout the wholeof the dcige fieet ng a p r on tthe o de s gn and also .a'portlon of the field des gn. It will desired to make.

By the method described, I am able to I ettect designs upon rugs of' 7 without changingprintingblocks or stencils employed, by merely changing the number of times theblocks are eliectiye; The design.

various sizes shownin Figure 10 may, of course, be extend-v thereto.

.1111 desired len th,

to eiiect an elongated medallion or by re: peating the position B and D two or more times. It willbe understood, if. course, that the designs ShOWHla-re by way,ofiillustration v only and V are a diagrammatic gree- U V The. .rug illustrated in Figure 10 has been} sc b as being. ecor tedrby m ans. stencils whereby an inlaid ornamented sur- 7 i l e undersized: i

however, thatthe same configuration may be to a certain. de;

face is produced.

effected by means of printing blockshaving e" d s gnshowu in Figure 1 may bemade,1nia numberiofsiz es/ by repeat ng pos1t1on Cja number oftmiesthe background on an inlaid rug of this type. If the rug shown in Figure 10 were printed, the number of printing blocks could then be limited to the stencils shown in Figures 11 to 15 inclusive, since the background of the rug couldbe. formed of theimaterialupon which the printed decorationis applied; l/Vhether the rug be printed or inlaid, however, it is desirable that the designs be exeouted so thata plurality .of-rugs are formed continuously upOn a sheet of floor covering,

middle line of the double border joining the adjacent designs, I While Ihave illustrated and described rtain preferr d mbediments t y iuv ntion, it will be understood that the inven-f r s netl m ted. heretabut may m th r: wi e plzaet ce n mb di d.- Wi hin-t e s ope. f; e. o lo i gc lai szr Ieleim;

T emethe l f form ng. ade gn ra. we. of in l u t er mi ar. hardeneaeed fi er-.c ve ing Wh reiathen s a ross or er: at a h en o the rug. dt fie d, ch Compri esad an ing he; trinm rde eeetet tfl eaming nd end the rugs eing s bsequently evered h e. e dip tt m b in prl' ecli t the cross first-mentioned design elements cooperating withv he. cross border elements and forming a part of the cross border. of thevr ugs thus 'formed and applying still further design 1 element'sin said groups, which "last-men;

tioned "design elements cooperate to form a rug medallion, v V r j In test mony whereof I have hereunto setthe desired decorative figures executedthere;

dallion in the inlaid ru on It will also beunderstoodthat the deg sign illustrated in Figure 1, having a me field, may be effected in anjin, laid rugaswell as. in a printed covering;

The designjshown in Figure 10 has been requiring sten oils for the transfer of decorative figures; V

transferring the surface 1 decoration; have Only the stencils, necessary for;

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